{"product_id":"cleave","title":"Cleave","description":"\u003cp\u003eTiana Nobile\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her debut collection, Tiana Nobile grapples with the history of transnational adoption, both her own from South Korea and the broader, collective experience. In conversation with psychologist Harry Harlow’s monkey experiments and utilizing fragments of a highly personal cache of documents from her own adoption, these poems explore dislocation, familial relationships, and the science of love and attachment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Rona Jaffe Foundation award winner, Nobile is a glimmering new talent. Cleave attempts to unknot the complexities of adoptee childhood, revealing a nature of opposites—”the child cleaved to her mother \/ the child cleaved from her mother”—while reckoning with the histories that make us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbstract\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFoster Mother\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first time I belonged to a woman,\u003cbr\u003emy body a fresh bulb broken off at the root.\u003cbr\u003eShe kept me for six months,\u003cbr\u003ewatched spit bubble from my pursed lips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI wonder if she ever claimed me,\u003cbr\u003eif she rocked me to sleep on her chest,\u003cbr\u003eif she wiped my mouth gently saying,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere you go, there you are.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Stick Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44643929424105,"sku":"9781938235757","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/products\/9781938235757_7888e.jpg?v=1682268602","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/cleave","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}